Watch-dial illuminator.



Patented July 8, I902.

F. M. DURKEE.

WATCH DIAL ILLUMINATUR.

(Application filed Sept. 28, 1901.)

(lo Modal.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

FREDERICK M. DURKEE, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TOULRIC BLATTER, OF JAMAICA PLAIN, BOSTON, MASSACHU- SETTS. I

WATCH-DIAL ILLUMINATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,446, dated July 8,1902.

Application filed $eptemher 26, 1901. Serial No. 76,662. (No model.)

To all wh m i m y mhaving a lamp 2', which is arranged to illumi- Beitknown thatI, FREDERICK M. DURKEE, nate the dial of the watch d. Thecasing a of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and is adapted to containa dry battery or cell 71, State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certainand suitable means are provided whereby the 55 5 new and usefulImprovements in atch-Dial lamp is electrically connected with said bat-Illuminators, of which the following is a specitery and whereby thecircuit through the batfication. tery and lamp may be closed toilluminate This invention has for its object to provide the lamp, saidmeans including a flexible caconvenient means for holdinga watch inpoble composed of two wires 7; 7c, which are 60 1'0 sition to be viewedconveniently from a bed electrically connected at their inner ends orcouch and for illuminating the same whenwith the battery, their outerends being conever the occupant of the bed wishes to ascertained in ahandle or holder m, which is protain the time. vided with acircuit-closing push-piece m,

The invention consists in the improved apadapted when pressed inwardlyto connect 65 pliance which I will now proceed to describe the ends ofthe wires 7t 7t, and thus close the and claim. circuit.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a The casing a is provided withflexible clips part of this specification, Figure 1 represents 0 o ofconducting material, which contact a front elevation of a watch-holderand dialwith suitable conducting parts at the ends of 7o illuminatorembodying my invention. Fig. the battery 71 and are sufficientlyresilient to 2 represents a side elevation of the same. make goodelectrical contact when the bat- Fig. 3 represents a partial section online 3 3 tery is inserted between said clips, as shown of Fig. 1. Fig. 4represents a partial section in Fig. 3, the battery being readilyinserted on line 4 4 of Fig. 2. and removed through the open back of the75 The same reference characters indicate the casing.

same parts in all the figures. It will be seen that the describedappliance My improved Watch-holder and dial-illumimay be hung upon awall or other support nator comprises a casing (1, adapted toconadjacent to the bed and that the handle on tain a dry battery orcell, said casing being and push-piece m may be left in convenient 8epreferably U-shaped in crosssection and position to be reached by theoccupant of the open at the back. The casing 0; is provided bed, who isthus enabled to close the circuit with means whereby it may be supportedon and view the dial of the watch without risinga a wall or othervertical support, said means I do not limit myself to the described formin the present embodiment of my invention and arrangement of the partsof the described 85 5 being a perforated ear b, affixed to the upperappliance, and the same may be variously end of the casing and locatedat one side modified without departing from the spirit of thereof, saidear being adapted to engage a my invention. hook or other device affixedto a wall. The I claimfront side of the casing a is provided with 1. Awatch-dial illuminator comprising a o means for holding a watch 01, saidmeans comcasing having an open back, the top and hot prising a hook e,affixed to the upper portion tom of the casing having flexibleconducting= of the casing, and a plate f, affixed to the casclipsadapted to contact with the top and boting below the hook c, said hookand plate betom of a battery-cell inserted through the said ingrelatively arranged, so that when the open back, said casing havingmeans for en-= 95 5 pendant-bowf of the watch is hung upon the gagementwith a supporting device, and havhook the back of the watchcase willrest ing a watch-holder at its front, a bracket pro against the plate f,which may have a facing jecting outwardly beyond the watch-holder, ofvelvet or other yielding material. an incandescent lamp engaged with theouter 9 represents a bracketaffixed to the casing portion of the bracketand electrically con roe (b above the watch-holder and provided at itsnected with said clips, and a circuit-closer outer end with anincandescent-damp socket connected with the said clips.

2. A watch-dial illuminator comprising a of the bracket and electricallyconnected with casing having an open back, the top and botsaid clips,and a flexible cable composed of tom of the casing having flexibleconducting- Wires connected with the clips and provided clips adapted tocontact with the top and bot with a circuit-closer at its free end.

5 tom of a battery-oellinserted through the said In testimony whereof Ihave affixed my sig- 15 open back, said casing having a perforated lnature in presence of two Witnesses. ear at its upper end and having awatch FREDERICK M. DURKEE.

holder at its front, a bracket projecting out- Witnesses:

G. F. BROWN.

i wardly beyond the watch-holder, an incan- ULRIO BLATTER, r0 descentlamp engaged with the outer portion 1

